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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1927-1-26, Page 2WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26, 1.927. .4.1111.0 THE BRUSSELS POST a on SSEL , KEEP THESE DATES. IN MIND JULY 24th TO 26th, 1927 The citizens of T3ru s.+a Ont., willhod 3vIliOW als 13 yinclude miikn on July 24th, 25th and 2B h 1927, which Township of Grey and Mori Help the Committee in c.h c,'.^'ty of to Heron, by sends ostr1Jecmee '?fu1 Reunion ever held in the County and to entertain. o, The- committe utwillit l sufeei i invitations to all, abut ld like to entertain. Tl LILY 24, 25 ce 26,192, be sure to names oand liaddeossis to0111:. JAS. FOX • 3.'ha;rman of Invitation Committee, ..®este,• Sand y School Lesson SY -N1 Vett Sees C. TRUivSE?'JC.t- (Editor of Tho Sunday School Times) THE CHRISTIAN OVERCOMING eetly the weepon that Goel torus us TION to line when we are tempted: -The "lilY, and trusting His Weal implici- tly. Sutnn i, subtle, id .ts Chri•t kept quoting Scripture to hint, he now started quoting Scripture -to Christ. The Devil know; the Bible, and ho sometimes uses it deceitfully as "tut agel of light." He. urged Christ to throw Iiinr;elf down from a pinnacle or the temple, and whited God's Scriptural piemiee, "He shah give Ilk angels th,age over Thee . . .in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest. at any time thou dash thy fold weninst a stone." This k a quota- tion from Psalm 91:11,12. 'But the promise is made to those. wet) 00010 hi Gpd in faith, not in presumption. So the Lord answered Scripture wrongly used by Script.ure rightly used, saying: "It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy Gel" This W113 from Deuteronomy 6:1(i. Lot 110 ilei•(„ Propose test„, to God in pre- sumption. But lot U3 trust flim to the uttermost when Ile tests no. Stettin eave up then ---for a while. Ile will always give up, .sooner or liter, when we stand steadfast on the Mori., Christ and the llible, the Living and the Written Word. And whoa Satan V0111014 haci.:ig'a1u, as he surely will, Christ and' the Bible et.ill re mein ---and always will. Sa- tan's -end is coming sane day. Taut �YIPTA Christ is "the same yesr cord of the Spirit,ay, and which ,, .he today and for ever" (tet0 dd 1:3 5), Sunday, Jan 3.—L0uke 1.1-13; I• Word of Gad" 1:11i1h 6:171. Our • and ;'the word of the Lord enduretn eorever" (1. Pet. 1:'25). Cor. 10:12, 13. Lent ,aid to the Devil: It i, welt Golden Text: tam that man shall not live by bread In that He Himself hath sn°Tered clone, but by every word of God." being tempted, He i; able to Sarco„ He was quoting the Bible when 11,' them that are tempted (Heb. 2:2,41. said this, for we find these words in .a Deuteronomy 8::3, weer •e Moo; re. The Loral Jeeus Christ Wei -fest mindeet Iereel that God had 1 t them been baptized by John the Bupti;t. hunger and had fed theta with man - The Holy Spirit dere ndel on Hint no, ''that He might make by -e know her Fat's voice wee heard that man doth not from Heaven: "This is My beloved ou1y, but by every word the, pre - anti Inc rty r d was Son, in whom I am well pleased" ceedeth out of the mouth of the ed forty yeays,. otAndorthe Scripture (Matt. 8:17). Then a startling thing Lard doth mean live." ed 1 essages used by our Lori in over- happened—it seems startling. t3 us. The servant is not above .tie Nits- pouring Satan are all three from The Holy Spirit at once led Jesus ter, and there is no other way for Nose's Satans to Israel reviewing into the wilderness in order that Sa- the Christian to overcome tempest- their wilderness experiences and les - tan might tempt Him. For more Hen than that which Christ used: than a solid month Satan's tc•tnpta- unquestioning faith in God and His eons.'s first gxeat syn in the wit - Lordcontinued. Then, after the Word. Let us always answer Sat- Israeldemos was the lust of the !3 h, Lord had been without food for tor- 1111'S if by God's "is." netting the desire for pthe.) food Vdays and His human body was Satan is "the god of this world" ! weak and hungering, Satan mach a t H. Cor. 1:4), and because of Ad above re t sin Word of idolatry, Y,l turn see - final drive, saying: "If thou be the am's sin and fall Satan is permitted started in this. country shortly. Son of God, command this ,tone th'etemporarily,world to bevy ullsavedomen.It was coover � ld make m God t andsee.worship Her third Definite announcement one way or that it may • made bread." th°: world and 1 the other would be made early in est said: "Thi: 1S 419 no idle boast, therefore. when he great sin was tempting God, the aim the New Year, said Mr. Veniot. of unbelief: "They tempted Jehovah, Northern Ontario has 2,600,000 square miles of mineral lands, of which only 7 per cent. has been ex- ploited; and yet this seven per cent, has already produced metals to the value of a billion dollars. Such was the summing up of George C. Bate- man, Secretary of the Ontario? Min- ing Association, speaking before the Engineers' Club. • "Twenty years ago," he reminded his hearers, "Northern Ontario was practically an unknown wilderness. Today it is the centre of a large and grow- ing industry." In the Sunday School Times eof Jen. '1,5, containing this levant:, Ro- bert C. .lieQuilkin has an unusual study :hewing that the three tempta- tions of our Lord, typical of all temptatc.nn, were identical with the three great temptations of Israel 111 the wilderness; and while Israel failed each time. Israel was tenlpt- '1 a There THE DYNAMIC DUNNING Here and Y here A Close-up of the Saskatchewan Man - Who is Minister of Railways The Beethoven manuscript son- ata in F major has been sold in Lan- (ley V, M, Kelp) s don, England, for $100, and the Charlie Dunning, of Regina, other,' Bach organ prelude for $3,750. wise the 1 -len. Charles A. Ituuning, l3nchelors in Rome between 25 Mini ter of Railways in His Majes- and 65 are to be taxed to provide ty's Canadian,.government, is a saga - fund's for the National Maternity dons ;amine men, atttl his middle ini- tial might well stand for imyaious. i For n young chap making hire way Canadian apples ere now on sale in the world he has done not sn bad - in Paris, France, in the central mar- 1y, and he is not through vire not by ket and in the shops. Slop window a 10nt distance. Ile went into Sas- displays as- dis tla s of the fruit ere reported to katehewan an unknown English set- t y have aroused quite a wave of ad- tier, and he resi�tned the tarctniel'ship miration, of Saskatchewan at the age of 41 to enter the federal cabinet. There is Alberta's visible coal supply is no doubt in the world that Mr. Dun - 'about .57 billion tons, Premier ping expects to be premier of Can - Brownlee declares. With the pos- tide in good time the 'fret prime sible exception of China, Alberta has the greatest coal deposits in the world. The annual production from the province averages around 6,000,- 000 to 6,500,000 tons. Valued at nearly $8,000, twelve silver black foxes in six crates ar- rived at Canadian Pacific Express Company's yards in Montreal re- cently for shipment by S.S. Berwyn from Saint John January 1st. They are from the Agnew Silver Fax Farm, Barry, Ont., and represent the first shipmenttoleave Canada in 1927. According to the financial state- ment of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way Company for the eleven months ended November 30, the net profits of the Company were $43,328,944.06, en increase over the net profits for the corresponding period of 1925 of $8,000,,960 23. For the month of November the net profits of the Company were $6,749,722.72, an in- crease of $501,687.90 over November of 1925. An air mail service for Canada is likely. The Hon. P. J. Veniot, Post- master -General, remarked in an in- terview' that the Postal Department at Ottawa are following with keen interest the successful activities of the United States air service and that something similar may be God hast 1 beloved Son." Satan said: "IF thou said to Christ, showing Flim "all the be the Son of God," Whet God kingdoms of the world," that he says "its', Satan often comes to us I would give "all this power" to Christ and says "if." God declares a fact. if He would worship hint. Satan tries to th d ubt on the Christ's second victory was 'exon saying, Is Jehovah among us or not?" (Exod. 17:7). The lesson passage in First Cor- inthians sumanerizes the whole temp- row o fact; he cannot change the fact, but'. by the ;amu method as the fast: ' 33 a io.nexperience pt t our is common way he tries to make us doubt it—that i:- ere written, thou shalt worshipescape. doubt God's Word. 1 Lord thy God, and Him only shalt to all men, "but God is faithful, who Christ answered this temptation - thou serve." We can overcome in will not suffer you to be tempted by the Word of God. He used ex - 'the same way by worshippin.; Cod above that ye are able; but will with Sonless ' ather Takes His Boys to Alaska $ HIS BOYSAND PIaS11'ICESS ALICE" A bachelor who levee boys but who says, "I'll but Buchanan has no boys of his own: That is knows; in his canny Scottish, way that George E. Buchanan, it wealthy coal the onlyg ht ting worth hn having issthe dealer of Detroit, a hard-boiled bust - n1:5 man who thinks tint the beet to inn bays: l'ie's a trip to Alaska. poselhle edu.eetlon a hay (an'hnve 13 1131-cee a trip to Europe for yell, 310) the education oftravel. m n trait Brad Vancouver vet the n• "r get. any benefit out of anything hr.. (((111(1. Pacific: '" i i nr(s`:`(4,.,„1,,,.,„ ;; tl lint work or sweat for. You earn in Sonly s and now h, pl ui'.: to .'enc-th1rd of you. p 1:>std,t mousey, not only h the n gawp o n":,s lute and 1 will- tell you 1,01 to do it a a. sir hat be i_e n >•: ro:1::1n.; v "ars•nts t i'aii^ tel. C � , tees • -.Ola A i •.:Cir yen e:1 • Mea -,zed Ids reit f!-,-...,1,,, 1,1 i 1-1t sip 1, ,rhe third 111(1 i Wig loan C~� 1e' L ' i ' 1••1+111 W. (term-- 10,11 900 t viii. .1-I( bar. sent a if„ten: 115 boys to Alaelte t e It ` "NO bay or run „.ver appreciated do i111, -'•,”11a .>~r,,. ;r1 .. 1st.,.,,,, mll a test. 'i , 1' ' e 0 .Lx 1' t11<, -i- . 1: r ti"1 , , ,. 't0 ;u, ee ( 030 .:' 1t y.,.1 gest ,,, .,.. ,) ' °,1 (, 1 le, wonderful tine, me matter whether i i • •.+� to f r L -(10to '.' elope. and ra,-e i ve a lee e e, , ,t; tPc fin.rfe with �, :` t't v heave .' "r to 1 14131 t ., , • emetic -30e and tre.val edncotlein t :. c y ' r AI Lei(. 1 I';r err r :.the tees L...fir.:..i, :. .i'. '.. . e lea -ease b. '.'.D%••,7,1611,n. c got SE E. BUCHANAN of "make good" boys has been very high, according to Buchanan. Of all these Alii ka boys, Buchanan says •t.hat two-thirds have voluntarily re- paid him, although he has merely put them on honor to do It when they got ready—and be forecloses no ,legal obligations, because there are none. Any boy, anywhere in the United States or Canada, can qualify for George la. T311e1anan's trip to Alaska or to Europe, and can earn h,e third nnywhere but, of course, ho 011nnld get in t0; 011 with air, Buclh- mean, in Detroit., to learn how to earn his third, ell of his boys have a minister west of the Great Lakes. He went to Ottawa when Maeket0i,e Ring was desperately in nee) of bol- stering his cabinet. To do this he gave up what had all the apearance of being a life -tile job as literally the boss of Saskatchewan, and it is SEES STABILITY E. W. Beatty, B.A., President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, who declares that the business pendulum having been given the necessary momentum a continuous healthy con- dition is likely to „nark the progress of Canadian development over a lengthy period of time. • "The League, in my opinion, is doing an invaluable work toward the rehabilitation of many of the war torn countries of Europe; it is mak- ing equally invaluable ventributioes to the cause of preventive tnedicitvi through the collection and iisa'mi•n- tttion by its experts of the best health knowledge; and it was most gratifying to find that Canada 00 - (metes a front rank position in pair lir henith work and i, shoulder to shoulder in methods and vi.olon with the four or five great nations of the world. - "Our Canadian Nursing Outpost Hospitt.ls, the first of their kind In the world, our Junior Reed Cross, which began in 1914 with one snoop group in Montreal, our t!lslting' Housekeeper's plan for .asst tine: tressed families and our general pro- cedure with regard to health work in Canada I found to be all matters of the greatest interest to my fellow workers in Europe. Several coun- tries are already inuttt o; our auk p 1 ":vital idea. 1t ha., spread te Australia, Norway, Sweden, Poland and Bulgaria; the Germans are try- ing' out in some of their bigger cities the Visiting Housekeeper plan and there is univer: al enthusiste'n re- garding the immense possibilities of the Junior Red Cross which began with us but now has a membership of over ten millions throughout the world. Of the great tasks being un- dertaken in Europe by the Red Cross I found the re-establishment of the Bulgarian refugees of perhaps the most intense interest but there is 1)111011 else to attract attention. An international course course in public health nursing has been recently in- augurated at Bedford College, Eng- land, for nurses from 1111 countries, and already there are women from. fourteen different countries in Let- tendance. Just think what Florence Nightingale would have thought of that as a stride in preventive medi- cine and the healing art:! But it is only one sample of the constructtve work which is being undertaken in a dozen different directions by the League of Red Cross Societies in its peace time program." graduate course in politica. I 1111•, Dunning should find himself. in the new Parliament which lute just asremhle1. His Liberalism is sound, he has natural ability of a high order, as a public speaker he has few superiors in Canada, and Saskatchewan pays tribute to his genius for administration. He be - heves in Canada and In his own des- , tiny—never forget the ,significance of that m1(1(11e initial) reasonable to suppose that he had assurances which he con ldered satin- WHY THE RED CROSS HAS A factory that his ambi!ions were not PEACE TIME PROGRAM thereby to be thwarted. Charlie Dunning ruled Satslcatche- Canada in the Front Rank in Health wan as completely as the ex -Kaiser ork governs his tiny kingdom or Hoorn. ; He inherited the very efficielt; poli- "Why has the Red Cross il Peace - tient machine which hart been built Time Program? And why did the by Hon. Walter Scott, and he let 110 Canadian Red Cross go on with its pulley squeak nor any cog go rusty. work after the war?" These two Dunning was the Government and questions were asked Dr. F. W. the Government evae Dunning. A- Routley, Director of the Ontario gainst him the Progressives made. no Division of the Canadian Rel Cross, progress whatever. They swept the when he returned very eeeently province in federal elections, they from a three months' sojourn in elected the legislatures in both oaf France where he was in charge of his neighboring provinces, but Dun• the Health section of the League of ning maintained, the rock of Liberal- plied Cross Societies which is cone - ism when the Conservative party in posed of fifty-six nations, all of Saskatchewan had sunk without leav- whom are "carrying on" in peace ing a ripple. He was a farmer, and time as energetically as they did dar- maintained hie connection with the ing the war. Saskatchewan Grain Growers, the "The reason for the peace time powerful organization which guided program of the Red Cross," said Dr. the Progressives' political activities Routley, "is that the war revealed in the province. Time after time his some very startling facts with re - enemies in the Grain Growers (later gard to the physical condition of the to become the United Farmers of world's manhood. Never before Saskatchewan) sought to commit the had such immense numbers of men Association to provincial political ac- been subjected to medical examfna- timt. Tin1e after time he stood in tion and the results were astounding, their conventions and defied them to A summary of the medical reports go ahead. Always they failed. Dien- on the British draftees showed that ning himself, had a mighty personal out of every nine men three were A combined service to the Cana- hold on the province, he controlled fit, three were infirm, two were; al- dian Pacific Railway Company of ti formidable machine, and his sup- most physical wrecks and one a 140 years was terminated January port in the great annual meetings of chronic invalid. In Canada we let with the retirement from the activities of travelling passenger agents of Henry R. Ibbotson, Am- brose E. Lalande and James McIKen- na, The official recordn of the Company indicate that these three well-known officials have served re- spectively, 44, 53 and 43 years in the employ of, the Company. The railway careers of these men began in each case during the construction of the Canadian Pacific lines from the ' north shore of Lake Superior west to the Pacific Coast. To further assist agricultural de- velopment the Canadian Pacific Railway will operate forage, crop, send, poultry distribatlon and dem- onstration cars in the Alberta dis- trict, starting this January, Fol- lowing the practice of previous Years the company will co-operate with the Provincial Government, says Thomas S. Acheson, General Acricultural Agent, Western Lines of the C.P.R. The special cars will centre upon Lethbridge, ranging be- tween the international boundary and Calgary, eastward to Lasolube and the Saskatchewan boundary, and west to Red Deer and Rocky Moun- tain House. the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to hoar it." 'That "way" is to be spelled with a capital W: Christ is the,Way. It Id said a single flash of lightning may carry 50,000,000 kilowats of powe'. A.n estimate of the value of field crops of 1.6243 given by the Dominion Bureau or Statistics shows ret decline from hast year, hat an ineree5 r over 1924. A fi-eh 4'/111641 Paleymus has been ; cuiecht in the M',literrenean. It nail t(''.vd rel a speed of 50 1111100 an -hoer an(l is add to be the fnetest 1%11 in the world, the Grain Growers never was left to found that almost exactly one half chance. the draftees were physically unfit IC is only fair to state thae, ids ad- for full service in the field. In all ministration was strong and efficient. countries similar conditions were The farmers themselves recognized found. Our long -held illusion that that Premier Dunning rendered sub- in peace there need be no struggle stantia!1 justice toall partes and to attain and miantain health among classes. He believed sincerely that the people was forever disalpaterl. It was for the first time realized that good health is a fundamental cssen- tal to all national greatness and that it cannot be found in Lvar un- less it has existed in times of peace. "Soon after , the Armistice the five great powers (Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and the 'Hefted States) became active in the initi- ation of a committee 'to formulate and to propose to the Red Cross Societies of the world an extended program of Red Cross work in the interests of humanity.' A confer- ence of medical experts—one of the most remarkable gatherings of tutth- orities on health questions the world hal .seen—tact at Carates in April. 1)119, and decided after careful de- liberations 'that a non-political or- ganization such as the. Red Cross world be able to educate the public regarding the means of prevention of •disease, and wou3l'd be he many other ways able to stimulate, support and aid' all governments int their health work. "So in the Covenant of the League of Natiohs, at the request of all the nations • participating in the Peace Conference a Special Article was in-, sorting defining a- peace time pro- gram for the Red Cross and in 101 the League of heel Cross' Societies was formally brought into being. Headquarters of the League arc in Paris where a staff of nearly one hundred )health experts 'representing many natiote, carry on the every of the Secretariat which coneists or the T1ivi'dons of Nursing, Disaster Re- lief, ,junior Red Cross ani the health and Publications sections where my own work lay. it was best for the province that he should stay in office, and he neglect- ed no decent means of maintaining his support in the legislature. It should be said also, as a matter record, that he never had to meet op- position such as the ilnited Farmers of Alberta alder henry Wise Wood, Provided in the province: to the West of hien for the old party governments nor did he possess 311e amiable weaknesses which accelerated the forces of disintegration in T. C. No- ris' late Liberal :government ie Mani- toba. Mr. Dunning, then, went to the federal Capital with everything in his favor, apparently, but with s01110 things to u810113n. Hie opposition in his own legislature had been so neg- ligible that he had become something of a 'despot, It is possible thee he was a bit arhitrary and intolerant, His wa0 so. easily the finest mines hi the Assembly, his parliamentary skill and itis ability in debate so far out- ranked that of any of his colleagues or opponents, he had acconplislteri se much in his :,bort; life, that inevitably he must have looked upon Federal politics as a nut ready and ripe for his gager fingers. Perlta.pe somewhat to his surprise, the Minister of Railways found con- Sid(•reble readjustment neeesstry be- fore he. could make leis dse.t (bless fully felt in the larger fie1)1. lie had. to )earl- »nasi he is leapning it --tile pollee, of eolitpremier. lie Nab to (lis 000131 that the House of f.'cnnmons eeeld be led, but not driven, that the a svero3(1.h:eter,4 able to trent rill hie ecumen and experience. In otthe Cl v.:%•ds, he art out to securere a post - ONE REASON The following is told of Mark Twain: They were standing be- side the cradle, gazing fondly down at their first-born, and the proud mother, in a burst of 071- thusiasm, exclaimed: "Oh, Sang, don't you love the little darling!" "Well," carne the deliberate reply, "I respect it; for its noble father's sake.' @•. TINKLING TALENT A child pianist whose home is in a London suburb, says a writer, has a chance of becom- ing famous. In the meantime, the neighbors have to put up with the tinkle, tinkle of the lit- tle star. HEARD AT POST,, OFFICIO "You've. put too much post- age on this package, madam." "Gracious ale! I only hope it won't go too far." COMPOSER' Fair Vie+rotor: "Do you work hi the composing room?" Compositor: "Yes, madam." Fair Visitor: "And 31 that where you sing, what you com- pose?" TIMELY "Tommy, you can't seem to got a117311ittg right to -day." "Tho world's champions slump occasionally, sir," responded the office boy mildly, ea . e WEIGHTY MATTER Student: "1 should have more credit on that first question, 1 wrote six pages." Professor: "We don't weigh the papers." s Holiday-Maue1•s: "Do you think we need to take our coats Picnicking? We're going to Wibbleeombe. ' Rustic: "Non, you'll be all right. Papers say 'Local show- ers; and Wibbleeombe be seven miles away!" WE'VE NOTICED THIS "I don't Iiko polo." "Why not?" "Too =eh .horseplay ill it "